We need to raise $3,000 more for
the 5 village preschools.  A donation
of $100 would cover the costs for
4 preschool children.

OBJECTIVE: Provide educational solutions to the children of the abject poor in the highlands of Guatemala.

PROBLEM: Over thirty percent of the youth in the farming areas around Senahu Gutemala have to leave their family and usually end up in the slums of the big cities and eka out an miserable existence for the rest of their lives.

SOLUTION: Improve farming practices so they can greatly improve the farms income so they can get their children educated.  This can be accomplished by:

(1) Improve corn and bean yields so more land can be allocated to cash crops.  This is accomplished by improved varieties, weed control, improved stands and appropriate fertilization.  Some farms show up to five times their previous yields.

(2) Cardamom is their cash crop, a plant that can last for ten years if manage cardamon properly. They are currently only getting around five years or about two years of higher production.  Ten years will get them seven years of higher production almost a four fold increase.

(3) In the addition to higher number of acres, they can substantially increase their yields and quality. With much higher yields and prices, they will have the funds to get their children educated. 

OBJECTIVE: Teach families in villages with extreme poverty the process of raising pigs, to increase their infcome.​

PROBLEM: Women in rural villages of do not have any opportunities to earn early money.

SOLUTION: Provide instruction to build proper pens for the pigs, provide a pig with the first bag of concentration feed for the new baby pigs. 

OBJECTIVE: Prepare Q'eqchi' children for school and increase literacy of their mothers.

PROBLEM: Children who only speak their native language in their home, have a hard time chainging to a new language (Spanish) when they start elementary school. They end up being at the bottom of the class.

SOLUTION:  Help provide a preschool for children 4 to 5 ages old, with their mother.  The preschool is provided in their native language, so they can begin by learning the alphabet and reading and writing words. As they learn to read and write in their native language they are prepared to learn in the Spanish language. 

RESULT: Many of the chldren who have completed this preschool are at the top of their class as they begin elementary school, and they continue at the top of their class as they contiue with their education.

EXTRA BENEFIT:  Mothers also increase their literacy as they help their child learn to read and write.